Identify And Prioritize The Performance Evaluation Indicators Of Sports Federations Of Islamic Republic Of Iran

The aim of this study was to identify and prioritize the performance evaluation indicators of Islamic Republic of Iran sports federations concerning importance of them as executive parts of country sport. The study population included all experts of monitoring and evaluation unit of Sport Ministry, professors and students of mentoring in sports management and experts, secretaries and undersecretaries of sports federations that 20 of them were selected as samples meaningfully and considering their expertise in the field of performance evaluation. By academic studies and conclusion of findings, the performance evaluation indicators of sports federations were determined in the form of 21 indicators and divided into four aspects of balanced scorecards including financial, customer, internal processes and learning and growth. Indicators equivalent to internal processes and growth and learning were considered as enablers and indicators which is equivalent to financial and customer were regarded as results. Finally, the experts were asked to determine the importance value of each indicator in fuzzy 5 scale range. According to the results, indicators of growth in the number of organized athletes in federation, national championships and national team qualification games, financial management and proportion of human sources had the most importance respectively. It seems that revision of performance evaluation system, formulation of criteria and indicators in accordance with existing situation and giving value to criteria based on their importance in evaluation can be effective on better conduction of evaluation and assessment of sports federations, determining strong and weak points and ultimately improvement of their performance.